Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth
By (Author) Gitta Sereny
Pan Macmillan
Picador
1st October 1996
9th August 1996
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Biography: historical, political and military
European history
Second World War
Modern warfare
The Holocaust
Architecture
943.086092
Winner of James Tait Black Prize for Biography 1995 (UK)
Paperback
784
Width 129mm, Height 197mm, Spine 52mm
562g
A masterpiece . . . a contribution to the effort of recuperation of human dignity at the end of this atrocious century . . . This is the account Joan of Arc would have given if she had been charged with interrogating Faust John Banville, Observer
A remarkable new biography arguably the most important and certainly the most fascinating book about the Nazi era published in the last ten years . . . Gitta Sereny has written a masterpiece Robert Harris, Sunday Times
An essential experience that conveys like no other book the qualities of the Nazi elite . . . restoring emotion to people we would prefer to regard as soulless machines David Cesarini, Financial Times
A masterpiece of historical and inquisitorial technique, enables us to understand the ablest, most articulate, and most ambiguous of Hitlers ministers Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Telegraph Books of the Year
Gitta Sereny is a Hungarian-born biographer, historian and journalist. Her works include Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth.